Venezuela to Sell Oil for Petro Cryptocurrency in 2019, Says Maduro  CoinDeskVenezuela's President Maduro has said the nation will sidestep the U.S. dollar and phase in use of its controversial petro token for oil sales starting next year. Read m …

Here's Why OPEC Can't Control Oil Prices Anymore  New York MagazineCrude prices have been in free fall for weeks – but suddenly the cartel of producers is looking helpless. Read more http://nymag.com/article/2018/12/heres-why-opec-cant-control-o …

Canada Posts Record Jobs Gain Despite Concerns in Oil Sector  BloombergCanada generated a record number of jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell to the lowest in more than four decades, suggesting the labor market ... Read more https://w …

OPEC gets Iran green light to cut oil output by 0.8 million bpd: source  Yahoo FinanceVIENNA (Reuters) - Iran gave OPEC the green light on Friday to cut oil output by around 0.8 million barrels per day from 2019, an OPEC source said. OPEC will .. …

Maduro: Russia, Venezuela Sign $5B Deals To Boost Venezuelan Oil ProductionOilPrice.comBack from a visit to Moscow, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro tweeted a video on Thursday, in which he said that Venezuela and Russia have signed US$5-billion investm …

Crisis-Hit Oil Producer Venezuela Set To Share Economic Data With IMFOilPrice.comOPEC's member Venezuela—which is sitting on the world's largest crude oil reserves but which is suffering the worst loss of oil production in history outside of war-in …

Economic TimesCrude may cool off some bit; gold looking upEconomic TimesThe commodities markets kept investors glued to it during the week gone by with crude oil swinging to the news reports coming out of the US, Iran and Saudi Arabia while all eyes were o …

Economic TimesCrude may cool off some bit; gold looking up, but has limited upsideEconomic TimesThe commodities markets kept investors glued to it during the week gone by with crude oil swinging to the news reports coming out of the US, Iran and Saudi Arab …

Financial TimesOil prices, energy stocks march higher on Iran worriesFinancial TimesOil prices rose and energy-linked equities continued to climb on Thursday after the US said it would restart sanctions against Tehran and pull out of the 2015 Iran nuclear …

CBC.caOil prices climb to fresh 3½-year highs after US quits Iran dealCBC.caOil prices rose more than three per cent on Wednesday, after climbing to fresh 3½ year highs, as a bigger-than-expected drawdown in U.S oil inventories extended gains from the Unit …